One of the things most beginners find hard to do when first painting along with Bob Ross are mountains. They struggle with getting the paint to 'break' like Bob does, and while the old master creates the illusion of terrain with a swift movement of the hand and a small roll of paint on his knife, they are stuck with the same role on the painting and with almost no breakage and no terrain, just like pictured below:

One solution to this problem is to just slapping a lot more paint on the canvas and calling it a day, just like I did in my first painting:

But here is the thing: Since a lot people start painting with rather cheap oil paints the problem is not their technique but the paint itself! Read More...

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"In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers."